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How to Make a Model Volcano
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How to make a model volcano is just the beginning.... Kids love magic tricks and special effects because they surprise and delight with the unexpected. Here's a collection of easy yet impressive special effects to try at your next kids party. But beware... kids are naturally inquisitive, and will want to know how you achieved your spectacular results. |
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Erupting Volcano
Start by lining a box lid (edges should be about 2 inches high) with foil or use a large metal pan.
Fill with wet sand. Place an empty soup can in the center and press the sand around the can to
form your volcano mountain. For the best effect, completely conceal the can. Spoon 1/4 cup
baking soda into the can and place the box on a surface protected with a plastic tablecloth or
newspapers.
To erupt the volcano, pour a portion of the activation solution into the can. When this is added to
the baking soda, it will make flowing "lava". Let your party guests take turns adding a bit of
solution to the can to cause further eruptions.
Activation Solution - 1 cup water, 3/4 cup vinegar, 1/2 cup dishwashing liquid, 10 drops of red
food coloring and 10 drops of yellow food coloring.
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Volcano Cake
Make a bundt cake and frost it in chocolate frosting. Decorate with palm trees and small plastic
dinosaurs. Before serving, take a pint of chocolate ice cream and place over the hole in the center
of the cake. Pour strawberry syrup over it for volcano lava. Serve and enjoy!
Variation: Frost the cake white and use vanilla ice cream for a different look.
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Twister in a Bottle
Take two empty 2-liter bottles and fill one about one third with water. Put the bottle openings
together, with the empty bottle upside down on top of the full one. Place a 3/8 inch metal
washer in the opening between the two bottles and duct tape them together carefully.
When you're ready to make a twister, reverse the bottles so the full one is on top. Swirl the top
bottle in a circular motion until a spinning vortex begins to form in the water. It will continue
until all the water has funneled through the washer and into the bottom bottle. Just reverse the
bottles to create another twister.
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Party Punch with Pizzazz
Mix up a batch of one of the following party punches:
Smoldering Swamp Water
Mix equal parts Ice Cool Arctic Green Apple flavor Kool-Aid with
ginger ale, or try any green beverage such as 7-UP.
Bubbling Love Potion
Mix equal parts cherry Kool-Aid & ginger ale for a colorful and fizzy love potion drink.
Here's where the fun starts...
Place a piece of dry ice in a sealed plastic container. Punch or cut holes in the container lid.
Before serving drop the container into the punch bowl for a very cool effect!
Important: Always use caution when handling dry ice! Use tongs or heavy gloves so it does not
touch bare skin as burn will result. Do not put the dry ice directly in the punch; it should NOT be
ingested.
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Frozen Hand
Fill an unpowdered surgical glove with water. Add green food coloring for a creepier look.
Securely twist tie the end and hang from a shelf in the freezer. Once frozen, cut off the glove and
float hand in your punch bowl for a nice "touch"!
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Slime
Take a cup of water and add to it 1 Tbs. of borax (available in the laundry section of the grocery
store). Stir until completely dissolved. Take 1/4 cup of white glue and 1/4 cup of water and mix
thoroughly. In a ziploc bag, add equal parts of the borax solution to equal parts of the glue
solution. A half cup of each will make a cup of slime. Add a couple drops of green food
coloring. Seal bag and knead the mixture.
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Fake Blood
Karo brand corn syrup
Red and blue food coloring
Milk
Add some red food coloring to the corn syrup, then just a drop or two of blue to get a more
realistic dark color. Milk will make the blood appear more opaque and more realistic.
Note: This mixture is sticky and can stain clothes.
Order your vampire blood here!
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These cool special effects are perfect for a mad scientist party, a dinosaur party, a Halloween
party... just use your imagination and have fun! They add a unique twist to any kids party and
will make your child's special day a truly memorable event!
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